Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.

home lab

Brandon LeeOctober 3, 2024
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Raspberry Pi Wayland Kiosk for Home Lab Dashboard

In looking for upgrades to my home lab, one of the things that I wanted to implement was a kiosk type dashboard that rotated between different monitoring screens showing different statistics in the home lab. As it turns out, Raspberry…
Windows Server 2025

Brandon LeeOctober 2, 2024
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New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025

In looking at Windows Server 2025 and security configuration settings, there is a new tool that Microsoft has introduced called OSConfig. In case you haven’t heard of it, this blog post is for you! We will take a look at…
home lab

Brandon LeeOctober 1, 2024
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NetBox Docker Compose Install Example

The NetBox solution is a great tool that can allow you to document and have a single source of truth for your network and infrastructure. Network and infrastructure engineers can use it as the starting point for driving automation and…
Windows Server 2025

Brandon LeeSeptember 30, 2024
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Install Windows Server 2025 on Proxmox

With the Windows Server 2025 Preview release available, I know many are trying out Windows Server 2025 across their environments, including home labs running Proxmox VE Server. Let’s take a look at the process to install Windows Server 2025 on…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeSeptember 27, 2024
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Mount Synology Drive in Proxmox with NFS

Mounting your NAS storage inside of Proxmox is a great way to add storage to your Proxmox VE Server for things like storing ISO images and other purposes, even running virtual machines. Let’s look at a helpful guide on how…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 26, 2024
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Configure TerraMaster Hyper Cache NAS SSD Caching

In working with the TerraMaster F4-424 Max, one of the features that I wanted to play around with was the SSD cache on this hybrid NAS. I installed (2) NVMe drives in the unit along with the spindles that I…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 25, 2024
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TerraMaster F4-424 Max NAS Review for Home Lab

In my opinion, NAS devices are getting better and better with more powerful hardware and better software on top of them. I recently reviewed the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus and was really impressed with the unit, it is actually serving…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 24, 2024
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Ceph Storage Calculator to find Capacity and Cost

If you are spinning up a Ceph storage pool and working with Ceph to store things like virtual machines in your Proxmox VE Server cluster, you may want to have an easy way to calculate the usable storage for your…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 23, 2024
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RAIDZ Calculator to find ZFS Capacity and Cost

Manually calculating your ZFS RAID storage capacity and cost can be something that you want to do if you are building out ZFS implementation. You may be looking for a ZFS RAID calculator that can help with this. Take a…
home lab

Brandon LeeSeptember 20, 2024
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Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC

In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares pics and specs of their home lab. Let me share…